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think obama -- i think obama signaling in that interview that he would pursue a constitutional amendment. basically he's saying it's not going to happen anytime soon, he's saying that i'm going to go door the door on this, and i'm going to make this a rallying cry as a way of organizing support for my side. and the polls, some polls suggest there's real, you know, you could win people over by that. you say, look, these guys are getting taken care of because -- i mean, it used to be, this election's a little different, but it used to be just in the last few cycles that that was a bipartisan rallying cry, right? i'm with the common man. republicans would say it, john mccain ran outen to a large extent in 2008, i'm against the powers that be in washington, i'm against the special interests in washington. so there's real potential, i think, for one party to really take this as a baton and use this as a way of mobilizing people. >> if i could just add to that. i mean, i think at the same time the bipartisan ground has disappeared, it has become a much bigger issue among democrats. not only on
think obama -- i think obama signaling in that interview that he would pursue a constitutional amendment. basically he's saying it's not going to happen anytime soon, he's saying that i'm going to go door the door on this, and i'm going to make this a rallying cry as a way of organizing support for my side. and the polls, some polls suggest there's real, you know, you could win people over by that. you say, look, these guys are getting taken care of because -- i mean, it used to be, this...
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i'm not asking obama whether he loves israel. does he believe it's within the interests of the united states to have a close relationship and sport that relationship which every -- and support that relationship which every president before him said is a special relationship, or does he believe that in order to satisfy the muslim world that somehow, rather, he has to separate us from israel? and what bob said is absolutely true. when the president -- by the way, the president's people, i've spoken to some of his people, say there was never a formal request for a meeting. i believe them. i believe they're honorable people. so it may very well be to attack the president for not having the meeting is unfair. and he says that, my contact, said that the israeli who first said there was such a request had to walk that statement back. i don't know that if that's true or not, but i accept it as true because the people who told me this are honorable people. i agree with bob that the most important thing is not to give the muslim world the
i'm not asking obama whether he loves israel. does he believe it's within the interests of the united states to have a close relationship and sport that relationship which every -- and support that relationship which every president before him said is a special relationship, or does he believe that in order to satisfy the muslim world that somehow, rather, he has to separate us from israel? and what bob said is absolutely true. when the president -- by the way, the president's people, i've...
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he conducted 200n ies aprin inatoffreoe who had supported barack obama in 2008 and given him mone and contributed to his campaign and worked hard to get him elective sdthcaaign trail. what he found was a surprisingly lk whh seimeme among people h onseeswa wh h d a whit over his head. it was too big for him and he wasn't prepared and his rsitmb w d moniker of the amateur. one of the common threads in our ofce tnguter prenndote s nal ed klein said barack obama may go down in history as the amateur. > onof p uom eyalnttofa to s t isr tsay that they are all arguing that he does not deserve to be reelected for one reason or another from tking s.ar ofre w bir sa> yooat bra of acan re by a public affairs and the amateur by regnery do you hope your anblolinfluencpublic o rt of the national conversation but when marji ross says the theme is n just puan drase vey as pe tee context and the issues and get involved and think about what is going on a more informed way. i wod hit wouldfft tinos lsecaueout ngicon ls atffect people's live. >> our books complement rather than contradict in that a lotf
he conducted 200n ies aprin inatoffreoe who had supported barack obama in 2008 and given him mone and contributed to his campaign and worked hard to get him elective sdthcaaign trail. what he found was a surprisingly lk whh seimeme among people h onseeswa wh h d a whit over his head. it was too big for him and he wasn't prepared and his rsitmb w d moniker of the amateur. one of the common threads in our ofce tnguter prenndote s nal ed klein said barack obama may go down in history as the...
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by sir paley mattered, why barack obama matters. but we are in the process of doing is expanding our idea of a leadership could look like if this is crucial to the question of how we view and why there are more women of color, were men of color. we have to imagine what a candidate could look like. so if there is a young white man in college and graduate school and is particularly smart and inspiring and excited and committed to doing good public work, batman will be sold you should run for office. if there is an equivalently inspiring, exciting, smart women of any color, it is much more common to say wow, you'd be great in politics. you should manage the campaign. that is one of the reasons it matters as soon as we begin to see that young women when that young men of color leadership, that is part of why it matters barack obama is our president. a generation of children for thinking of president looking that way. people who grow up in states with women governors, you know, tulsi gabbard who's going to be sworn in in hawaii. she was
by sir paley mattered, why barack obama matters. but we are in the process of doing is expanding our idea of a leadership could look like if this is crucial to the question of how we view and why there are more women of color, were men of color. we have to imagine what a candidate could look like. so if there is a young white man in college and graduate school and is particularly smart and inspiring and excited and committed to doing good public work, batman will be sold you should run for...
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president obama -- in the federal role. president obama has strongly supported school choice, particularly charter schools. he wants to scale up nonprofit management organizations that are thought to be successful in working with students in high- poverty communities. but, as we will discuss, vouchers and charter schools are only two of the many types of school choice. one voucher or charter policy can look and act very differently from another. what is school choice? how can we most sensibly understand and use school choice? gary miron and two of our colleagues -- we set out to answer that. our project resulted in the book that jamila bey just mentioned, "exploring the school choice universe." the main rationale for the project was that, while there are other school choice books, they cover only one or two topics or one or two types of choice. first thing we did was think about all the issues prompted by choice-based policies. is surprising how many issues there are. we have basic philosophical and democracy issues. we hav
president obama -- in the federal role. president obama has strongly supported school choice, particularly charter schools. he wants to scale up nonprofit management organizations that are thought to be successful in working with students in high- poverty communities. but, as we will discuss, vouchers and charter schools are only two of the many types of school choice. one voucher or charter policy can look and act very differently from another. what is school choice? how can we most sensibly...
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he is cynical and he will call out obama when he thinks obama is being nonsensical. he will do the same thing to conservatives. he is not a left and center -- and i have great fun. half an hour, back and forth, it's minutes which is on tv, and the other 20 something minutes is online. it was great fun. very serious, but he kept asking questions. he had lots of a good staff with great numbers. you could not get them anything around him are passed on. he was very well-informed. it was fun to do. he is the a comedian, you have some points to make. let him do any of the jokes. don't try to step on his territory. >> one last thing. when bill clinton ran against george bush in 1992, the recession had technically been over before it bill clinton declared his candidacy. bill clinton was still successfully able to run against the worst economy in 50 years. do you think obama, by citing some of these more positive statistics, because we are technically in a recovery, runs a similar risk of appearing out of touch with the way perceive the economy? >> obama has behind him the th
he is cynical and he will call out obama when he thinks obama is being nonsensical. he will do the same thing to conservatives. he is not a left and center -- and i have great fun. half an hour, back and forth, it's minutes which is on tv, and the other 20 something minutes is online. it was great fun. very serious, but he kept asking questions. he had lots of a good staff with great numbers. you could not get them anything around him are passed on. he was very well-informed. it was fun to do....
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he called up and asked obama what he come? obama said i am too busy. i am getting phone calls from warren buffett and steve jobs and bill gates and all these important people and rogers said you promised and obama told him you are not supposed to believe promises made by politicians, are you? rogers got very a angry, and demanded that he show up and eventually he did show up. the point of the story is so many african-american leaders, businessmen and political people i have spoken to for this book told me similar stories in which they were there for him, for obama on day one. they were when they called day one people supporting him, organizing, contributing and once he was elected to the senate and eventually the presidency they never heard from him again. it wasn't only african-americans but jewish-american donors who gave him back some of the money and never got their phone calls returned. it was oprah winfrey who worked hard for him and then frozen out of the white house and caroline kennedy and on and on and on. the portrait that i derive from this
he called up and asked obama what he come? obama said i am too busy. i am getting phone calls from warren buffett and steve jobs and bill gates and all these important people and rogers said you promised and obama told him you are not supposed to believe promises made by politicians, are you? rogers got very a angry, and demanded that he show up and eventually he did show up. the point of the story is so many african-american leaders, businessmen and political people i have spoken to for this...
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and executive order, right, a series of executive orders by obama that seems overly effectively ended the use of those tactics in american custody. so that's one example of what i think one can say we don't even talk about it anymore. it seems like we have sort of help fix that. is eradicated? no, i doubt it. but a victory? absolutely. the extent the claim is this is counterproductive, right? so what's the argument? the argument that if the aclu had done nothing we would've been better off because the 800 people that were at guantÁnamo would have been released anyway and we wouldn't be down to 150, a little hard is exactly what he is trying to get at. it does point though i think to a question that is worth asking, which is a question of strategy. the aclu has won the best best litigation shops in the country on these issues, on any issue. how do you decide when to litigate, how do you decide when to effectively negotiate or lobby? you have a host of different tools. sometimes it's right to see coming down the track if you go on a certain age, the odds are you'll lose. so what are yo
and executive order, right, a series of executive orders by obama that seems overly effectively ended the use of those tactics in american custody. so that's one example of what i think one can say we don't even talk about it anymore. it seems like we have sort of help fix that. is eradicated? no, i doubt it. but a victory? absolutely. the extent the claim is this is counterproductive, right? so what's the argument? the argument that if the aclu had done nothing we would've been better off...
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maffei: president obama -- rozum: present the obama failed. at what you propose to be with the president couldn't. rozum: i'm not sure if it's quite true to say that president obama tried to provide a single-payer option. he campaign on the public option in 2008 and gathered support of many progressive voters that really did what single-payer health care. and then a single-payer was not, option was not on the table in 2009. so i think what we really need is winnable progressives in congress that will stand up and fight for what we need, which is health care for all the medicare for all which will rein in increasing health care costs. the united states spends about twice as much per capita on health care as other countries. we are about summer between 30th and 40th in the quality of care we provide, according to the world health organization. and it shouldn't be that way because we do have some of the most skilled doctors and researchers here. and so with medicare for all we guarantee access to care, and we allow patients to choose their doctor
maffei: president obama -- rozum: present the obama failed. at what you propose to be with the president couldn't. rozum: i'm not sure if it's quite true to say that president obama tried to provide a single-payer option. he campaign on the public option in 2008 and gathered support of many progressive voters that really did what single-payer health care. and then a single-payer was not, option was not on the table in 2009. so i think what we really need is winnable progressives in congress...
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we have barack obama back in the white house. we have democrats holding the senate, and we have republicans holding the house. you have outlined what you would to happen. you presumably think it would be easy to make happen if you republicans in the senate and in the white house as well. what happens if you have to do business with what we've had, with a divided government we have had? how do we actually get things done in washington when we haven't been able to do them for the last four years? >> it will certainly be a different environment and some different people. and reality will face is because of the things you have been talking about. we are either going off the cliff are we are not. we are either making a big deal or we are not. we are either getting the debt limit extended or not. we are either keeping our modest but very important economic growth or we are not. and those issues are going to bring people to a fundamental reality that it may be the same structure, which i hope it's not. it may be the same structure, divi
we have barack obama back in the white house. we have democrats holding the senate, and we have republicans holding the house. you have outlined what you would to happen. you presumably think it would be easy to make happen if you republicans in the senate and in the white house as well. what happens if you have to do business with what we've had, with a divided government we have had? how do we actually get things done in washington when we haven't been able to do them for the last four years?...
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he has to be to obama's right. i don't think he's going to have the money to do everything he's proposing. by the way, he also wants to link defense to gdp and hold it to 4% of gdp which over time would be a very large difference between he and obama, but he says it's aspirational in his own budget. but i think other president would probably cut some ground forces. i think either president is going to have a hard time wrestling with iran and may wind up being complicit or even participatory in an israeli attack which runs at some counter to my first point, but the last point i would make is i think either president even within his own plan is going to need more money to accomplish it than currently projected. in other words, like all presidents before them, there's a mismatch in these two gentlemen's plans and budgets. their plans to reduce weapons or limit the growth sound nice, but they actually would require more money than currently projected. when you have firm caps from a budget framework, it gets hard to do
he has to be to obama's right. i don't think he's going to have the money to do everything he's proposing. by the way, he also wants to link defense to gdp and hold it to 4% of gdp which over time would be a very large difference between he and obama, but he says it's aspirational in his own budget. but i think other president would probably cut some ground forces. i think either president is going to have a hard time wrestling with iran and may wind up being complicit or even participatory in...
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house has done better than the senate for the obama administration. the group also discuss they don't always read the legislation in full before voting for. this is 90 minutes. >> good afternoon. welcome. minus daniel schuman and i'm the director of the advisory committee on transparency which is hosting today's events. today's discussion is going to focus on whether congress is serious about transparency. we're going to explore the progress that is made up to 100 of congress and identify some of the deficits. we're going to do my portion very quickly because what's really interesting of course is what our general palace have to say. let me start by introducing a. on my right is hugh halpern, staff director for the u.s. house of representatives committee on rules. on the committee serves as chairman david tries chief adviser on committee and leadership that is the to my leftist jim harper, director of information policy studies at the cato institute and is also the founder of washington watchdog, which keeps a very close eye on legislation and federal
house has done better than the senate for the obama administration. the group also discuss they don't always read the legislation in full before voting for. this is 90 minutes. >> good afternoon. welcome. minus daniel schuman and i'm the director of the advisory committee on transparency which is hosting today's events. today's discussion is going to focus on whether congress is serious about transparency. we're going to explore the progress that is made up to 100 of congress and identify...
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the the date over teacher's evaluation began when the obama administration rightly made them part of the race to the top grant competition. to qualify for the money the state passed a law requiring the district to adopt a teacher evaluation systems. but the law gave the unions the veto authority. does the governor recently said, the lot just hasn't worked. like many other districts around the state, we are at an impasse and let's be clear about what the stakes are. a recent study by harvard and columbia economists found students with effective teachers are less likely to become pregnant, more likely to go to college and more likely to get higher paying jobs. nick christoff as a column about it today and the new york times. i urge everyone to read it. great teachers make an enormous difference and ineffective teachers are hurting our students future. we cannot allow that to the [applause] common sense says unfortunately not every teacher is a great teacher. we have to help those that need the help, and if they can't get help, then we have just got to say are we here for the teachers o
the the date over teacher's evaluation began when the obama administration rightly made them part of the race to the top grant competition. to qualify for the money the state passed a law requiring the district to adopt a teacher evaluation systems. but the law gave the unions the veto authority. does the governor recently said, the lot just hasn't worked. like many other districts around the state, we are at an impasse and let's be clear about what the stakes are. a recent study by harvard and...
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the fight to obama. you will expose him for his record and we will win the white house and we'll get this country back to the constitutional on which it found and where the right man for the job. i urge all of you to go out, recruit your friends, recruit everyone you've got. if they're not in favor tell them to call me, i will talk them into it. get them here. let's get into the poll. let's do it on saturday because we're speaking on behalf of the entire nation. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. they're going to stay to talk personally. this is such a shy group, you know. i mean, i've never know these people to be this shy, quite frankly. thank you again for being here. >> thank you for coming. [inaudible conversations] >> it may take a lot of neighbors, but that's all right. that's the way it works. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you, thank you so much for coming. i appreciate it. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> well, he's got my vote. he's got my families vote. and i do believe
the fight to obama. you will expose him for his record and we will win the white house and we'll get this country back to the constitutional on which it found and where the right man for the job. i urge all of you to go out, recruit your friends, recruit everyone you've got. if they're not in favor tell them to call me, i will talk them into it. get them here. let's get into the poll. let's do it on saturday because we're speaking on behalf of the entire nation. thank you. [applause] >>...
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>> what do i like about the obama administration? i like president obama first of all. [applause] i like what he's tried to do. i think he was dealt the worst hand of any president since franklin roosevelt. we had two wars. we had an economy in free fall, a financial system that was cratering, and he did a pretty steady job. people say he's too calm. well, you needed somebody calm in those months, and he did a pretty good job. you can argue the stimulus should have been bigger. i mean, for example, if it was the same z the percentage of gdp to the chinese, that's $1.9 trillion opposed to $788. he should have done public financing when he was first in office. i think he's reset our foreign policy, i think hillary clinton's done a great job as secretary of state, and i think that we're now a part of a world community again, not lone rangers out there, and i think he started the capacity to touch our spirits. i think that's the end of the second question. [laughter] thank you very much. minutes. [applause] >> let me say that's more than a quarter of a century. i'm a little
>> what do i like about the obama administration? i like president obama first of all. [applause] i like what he's tried to do. i think he was dealt the worst hand of any president since franklin roosevelt. we had two wars. we had an economy in free fall, a financial system that was cratering, and he did a pretty steady job. people say he's too calm. well, you needed somebody calm in those months, and he did a pretty good job. you can argue the stimulus should have been bigger. i mean,...
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and president obama and arne duncan did it with race to the top, right? they pushed reform in a direction that unions didn't want to go, and their democrats. they did this. this is an amazing thing really. politically, they deserve a medal for doing what they did. okay -- >> that was a great line to tweet, everybody. [laughter] >> so, um, there's a problem here, and the problem is that they're democrats. and because they're democrats most of these people believe in collective bargaining, they believe in unions, they believe unions and collective bargaining are good. and so they don't want to say we have to undermine collective bargaining in order to make the schools work well. they don't want to give up on collective bargaining. and then the other thing is that union power literally, powerful unions are the power base of the democratic party. and if you undermine the power of the unions, you're undermining the power of the democratic party. well, democrats don't want to do that. okay. so here's the dilemma. if you believe -- and i think it's incontroverti
and president obama and arne duncan did it with race to the top, right? they pushed reform in a direction that unions didn't want to go, and their democrats. they did this. this is an amazing thing really. politically, they deserve a medal for doing what they did. okay -- >> that was a great line to tweet, everybody. [laughter] >> so, um, there's a problem here, and the problem is that they're democrats. and because they're democrats most of these people believe in collective...
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if you asked obama what he plans to do for the next 50 years for his country, that would hardly be a serious question. i mean, no american leader, nina, four years is long term. and think to the end of their term to the next election. so i think he did have a long-term perspective. at the same time he was experimental. and he didn't have fixed notion. and he was across the river for groping first dose. again, that term was somehow attributed but it was a unique and. he didn't invent the term. he used the term, use the ideas that he was a manager who put it all together and provide the direction, firm and that made it all happen. >> watch the entire interview with ezra vogel and his biography, "deng xiaoping and the transformation of china," tonight at 8 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. .. there is one line i have right here. apparently in a meeting at the conference boehner told people, get your ads in line and i think that is how congress has been so polarizing and so effective that a book like this would be great for summer reading just to kick back and figure out some of the dramas t
if you asked obama what he plans to do for the next 50 years for his country, that would hardly be a serious question. i mean, no american leader, nina, four years is long term. and think to the end of their term to the next election. so i think he did have a long-term perspective. at the same time he was experimental. and he didn't have fixed notion. and he was across the river for groping first dose. again, that term was somehow attributed but it was a unique and. he didn't invent the term....
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the obama campaign has had a commencement money. when you look at the super pacs it's very clear that republicans have dominated. restore our future has been $87 million. upon that was being of newt gingrich but still, or rick perry or whoever was the flavor of the week and republican primary. but $87 million, and crossroads 30 million overall. and after that club for growth, $12.3 million to massive amounts of money into cycle. and so i just think it is what it is but it's reality we're getting with. it's why we're here today to talk about and it's a very difficult thing for campaigns to deal with. >> you did say i think when looking at the practical matter of this campaign the president's campaign is outspending pretty significant governor romney's campaign on television but you're right, with the outside groups is actually, if you aggregate the president and the groups on the left and governor rod and groups on the right it is governor romney side as heavyweight on television but it's relatively close but it is an aggregate that
the obama campaign has had a commencement money. when you look at the super pacs it's very clear that republicans have dominated. restore our future has been $87 million. upon that was being of newt gingrich but still, or rick perry or whoever was the flavor of the week and republican primary. but $87 million, and crossroads 30 million overall. and after that club for growth, $12.3 million to massive amounts of money into cycle. and so i just think it is what it is but it's reality we're...
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i've been round to people in the midst of the campaign and said, what did president obama do for your taxes? and almost everyone said that he raised taxes. and to be fair, they were paying some more taxes. but none of them knew -- and part of it was the administration and the reasoning that we send people a rebate check. they won't notice it in their count each week tom and it will be more inclined to spend it. in terms of people noticing it, it worked early and late. but in terms of people spending it, it did not. [laughter] >> it was one of the reasons people didn't realize their taxes went down. >> [inaudible question] -- some construction and that they were hiring chinese workers. -- blue-collar workers. >> the one i recall, in the book i focus on a guy who was a typical person who worked for the same company for 35 years, ended up living the american dream. one of the questions was how my going to get a job as a construction worker? i have been working the same kind of job over the years. there was a lot of efforts. i think that green for all -- blue-green along the lines of the
i've been round to people in the midst of the campaign and said, what did president obama do for your taxes? and almost everyone said that he raised taxes. and to be fair, they were paying some more taxes. but none of them knew -- and part of it was the administration and the reasoning that we send people a rebate check. they won't notice it in their count each week tom and it will be more inclined to spend it. in terms of people noticing it, it worked early and late. but in terms of people...
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i support the keystone pipeline, different than president obama. i support fronting as long as we're doing it safely. i support wind, solar, all of that. i don't support continuing to get taxpayer handouts to big oil. >> moderator: would you like a rebuttal? akin: look, i think it's interesting, i would like a rebuttal, yes, but i think it's interesting that claire talks of being a moderate and effective she is worried about the spending and taxes and all, and yet i believe she supported $6.9 billion, trillion dollars worth of deficit spending, and she calls herself a moderate but i guess the thing that comes to my mind is how much do you have to spend to become a liberal? >> moderator: senator? mccaskill: i want to say this to congressman akin has been a lot of his time in the campaign talking of stingers and other things he has his whistle but if you look at the record, the interesting thing about it is congressman akin has only opposed the stimulus it is a democrat in the white house. because many times there were $400,000 in stimulus. he has vo
i support the keystone pipeline, different than president obama. i support fronting as long as we're doing it safely. i support wind, solar, all of that. i don't support continuing to get taxpayer handouts to big oil. >> moderator: would you like a rebuttal? akin: look, i think it's interesting, i would like a rebuttal, yes, but i think it's interesting that claire talks of being a moderate and effective she is worried about the spending and taxes and all, and yet i believe she supported...
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someone should be held accountable, it should be president obama. i really was disturbed when he had hillary clinton stand up and take the blame. that's not what a leader does. >> you want to respond to that at all? hochul: we agree on how the situation was handled. we must in watching different debate. i remember the president the united states take responsibly for those actions. >> go ahead spent we will move onto the next question and that is for mr. collins. super pac ad was released recently claim you fired one of 50 workers at buffalo china but several sources have criticized this had called it false. now, the question is, do you hold your opponent responsible, or can can this be held responsible engine for super pac adds that are made on their opponents behalf? collins: , i'm glad you brought this up. she's running wild. in fact, i save 245 jobs if ms. hochul with just a privacy and go china. i was lauded for a good step in into that back in '04, and every media outlet channel two, the buffalo news channel seven, channel 13 in rochester said
someone should be held accountable, it should be president obama. i really was disturbed when he had hillary clinton stand up and take the blame. that's not what a leader does. >> you want to respond to that at all? hochul: we agree on how the situation was handled. we must in watching different debate. i remember the president the united states take responsibly for those actions. >> go ahead spent we will move onto the next question and that is for mr. collins. super pac ad was...
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compare that with barack obama. what did he do in his first year of the presidency to address the economy? the stimulus bill and you can say the bailouts which were incredibly important. my personal view is the number one problem with the obama administration of least in the early days was it didn't split the bill up you should have had ten stimulus bill that added up to the but reach 70 billion-dollar bills that just hammered home the idea we care about the economy. i think first of hominy republicans standing alone would against the tax cut bill? i'm sure some of them would but it wouldn't be zero like it in the that been for the stimulus. how many would vote against the port, the infrastructure spending bill was quick to have a lot of spending to leave chris jansing alone, a lot of them but it wouldn't be 100% and that would have given president obama some momentum like a 50 hour momentum and is still blows my mind the financial regulation was put off until almost the end of the first half of the term. if nothing
compare that with barack obama. what did he do in his first year of the presidency to address the economy? the stimulus bill and you can say the bailouts which were incredibly important. my personal view is the number one problem with the obama administration of least in the early days was it didn't split the bill up you should have had ten stimulus bill that added up to the but reach 70 billion-dollar bills that just hammered home the idea we care about the economy. i think first of hominy...
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specifically, president obama's appointment of richard cordray, to head the consumer financial protection bureau. ri him.ay >> mr. president, i rise today in defense of the constitution. i rise today to condemn the president for making appointments that are unconstitutional and illegal. members to the national labor relations board and to the consumer financial protection agency. he did so by saying we were in recess. well, this is news to us because those of us in the senate maintain that we were never in recess. this is something where the preses has upurposed a power never previously taken by a president and has decided unilaterally he gets to decide when we're in recess. these appointments are illegal and unconstitutional, and i'm surprised -- i am surprised that no member of the majority party has stood up to tell the president so. i'm not surprised that the president has engaged in unconstitutional behavior. his health care law is brazenly unconstitutional. his war with libya was unconstitutional. he got no congressional authority. so for a man who once gave lip service to the const
specifically, president obama's appointment of richard cordray, to head the consumer financial protection bureau. ri him.ay >> mr. president, i rise today in defense of the constitution. i rise today to condemn the president for making appointments that are unconstitutional and illegal. members to the national labor relations board and to the consumer financial protection agency. he did so by saying we were in recess. well, this is news to us because those of us in the senate maintain...
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i want to thank president obama for the disaster declaration for maryland. that allows fema to be available for public assistance. we have a request for individual disaster assistance for the individuals who are impacted. that proposal is pending. i will be working to make sure individuals have been impacted by the storm, have a strong partner from the federal government as we can possibly have. i think it is going to be highly likely we will have to have supplemental emergency appropriation bill. that is not in this committee but i do point out we have to make sure resources are available and congress will shortly be adjourning and i hope we will pay attention to that during this session of congress to make sure the federal agencies have the resources they need to be able to deal with the consequences of hurricane sandy. from this committee's point of view we need to look at the environmental impact. there have been numerous oil spills having an impact on our environment. we had major problems on our shorelines and we need to take a look at shoreline restor
i want to thank president obama for the disaster declaration for maryland. that allows fema to be available for public assistance. we have a request for individual disaster assistance for the individuals who are impacted. that proposal is pending. i will be working to make sure individuals have been impacted by the storm, have a strong partner from the federal government as we can possibly have. i think it is going to be highly likely we will have to have supplemental emergency appropriation...
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secretary of state hillary clinton said wednesday that the obama administration has repeatedly urged russia to cut military ties completely and suspend all for the support and deliveries to syria. russia's foreign minister has denied allegations by secretary clinton that they are sending attack helicopters and has accused the u.s. of selling arms to the opposition. sector clinton's remarks are from a joint news conference with india's minister of external affairs. following their third annual session of the u.s.-india strategic dialogue. this is 40 minutes. >> we have had an excellent meeting of the strategic dialogue between our two nations, covering a wide range of bilateral regional and global issues. and i will just touch on a few to highlight. first, i want to put the third strategic dialogue into a broader context. india and the united states have a strong foundation of friendship and cooperation. that today we are seeing something new. the strategic fundamentals of our relationship are pushing our two countries interests into closer convergence. by strategic fundamentals, i me
secretary of state hillary clinton said wednesday that the obama administration has repeatedly urged russia to cut military ties completely and suspend all for the support and deliveries to syria. russia's foreign minister has denied allegations by secretary clinton that they are sending attack helicopters and has accused the u.s. of selling arms to the opposition. sector clinton's remarks are from a joint news conference with india's minister of external affairs. following their third annual...
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we have obama brought by bringing debate, sharing responsibility, looking on stainability, ownership or just natural movement which we need to share and dallas -- i hope this message will be able to convey because american people individually in their differences need to hear they are saving life of millions of people. we have to share the burden with other countries now, and that should be the message. >> peter? >> along the same lines. save money, save millions of lives, and has also, i think, improved american image in the world to a large extent. decreasing that effort now is not only going to cost millions of lives because people will die, but also, i think, would be stupid from a perspective of smart foreign policy. now, let's see how our friends -- the biggest problem i have is the conference may be how do american aids activists going to handle that? that is, i think, the biggest challenge. >> well, that's a good note to take questions from the audience. i ask that you raise your hand, wait until the microphone reaches you, identify yourself, and give us a real question. ther
we have obama brought by bringing debate, sharing responsibility, looking on stainability, ownership or just natural movement which we need to share and dallas -- i hope this message will be able to convey because american people individually in their differences need to hear they are saving life of millions of people. we have to share the burden with other countries now, and that should be the message. >> peter? >> along the same lines. save money, save millions of lives, and has...
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obama. well, i am sorry to say today that they will never have a chance to be president of the united states! they will never have a chance to talk, they will never have a chance to love, they will never have a chance to experience what we are experiencing! [cheers and applause] that must stop. on this platform and at this rally today are african-americans who do help to make america a great nation. we were here in the beginning of this great republic. but today like so many americans, our hearts are heavy, our voice needs to be clearly heard for justice! [cheers and applause] we, we are troubled, we are troubled because our country's increasingly embracing the culture of death. we have lost the light that ghei us the strength -- gave us the strength to overcome all of the obstacles of our past histories. we have lost the light that gave us truth. we now call evil good, and good evil. so today we stand here on this platform with all americans of goodwill to call for an end to the culling of
obama. well, i am sorry to say today that they will never have a chance to be president of the united states! they will never have a chance to talk, they will never have a chance to love, they will never have a chance to experience what we are experiencing! [cheers and applause] that must stop. on this platform and at this rally today are african-americans who do help to make america a great nation. we were here in the beginning of this great republic. but today like so many americans, our...
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number two, obama has no teeth. number three, this is so recklessly cynical. number four, now that we can't even trust the u.s. embassy, i can't tell you how angry i am. number four, in 2012 the entire human race is unable to rescue a blind man. number six, after i read the report by cnn that the whole world is talking about this man, only the chinese themselves don't know what's going on. i am so saddened by this fact. the last quote, this is by the canadian, the very well known canadian activist -- [inaudible] you might know her name. he said the chen guangcheng case is a challenge for the u.s. ideals, also a test of american strength. if u.s. gave up on protecting chen guangcheng, it amounts to giving up its leadership role in the world. down the road in face of terrorism and dictatorship, the u.s. will never be able to stand straight up again. this is by an activist based in canada, also a journalist. that's what i'm here to say, and i'm happy to have said it, and thank you very much for this opportunity. thank you. >> ms. yaxue, thank you very much for yo
number two, obama has no teeth. number three, this is so recklessly cynical. number four, now that we can't even trust the u.s. embassy, i can't tell you how angry i am. number four, in 2012 the entire human race is unable to rescue a blind man. number six, after i read the report by cnn that the whole world is talking about this man, only the chinese themselves don't know what's going on. i am so saddened by this fact. the last quote, this is by the canadian, the very well known canadian...
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so i credit president obama with that decision. .. to be present when we must to be part of the positive solution in east asia. the main recommendation to our country is not to be isolationist because we are having troubles here at home and to avoid draconian cuts to our defense budget. a lot of people understand better than i do if the united states loses our military action, if we lose our power to project forward globally our foreign policy will suffer and countries we may not like very much make the merged dominant. the most important part of your technique is the united states needs to lead by a strong military and the future. $450 billion over ten years is a significant contribution. if we go beyond that we will be in big trouble as a country and i don't want to see that happen. [inaudible] >> there is no better spokesman then you. i have a question about the forthcoming summit. the context in 1999 during that summit we were bombing serbia with -- bill clinton was being in peach to. >> interesting in that sense. there are three
so i credit president obama with that decision. .. to be present when we must to be part of the positive solution in east asia. the main recommendation to our country is not to be isolationist because we are having troubles here at home and to avoid draconian cuts to our defense budget. a lot of people understand better than i do if the united states loses our military action, if we lose our power to project forward globally our foreign policy will suffer and countries we may not like very much...
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president obama did not start this policy. it's been going on for 30 years, but he's making it much worse. with his health care law that was passed and when it takes effect next year, the kaiser family foundation says that states which already are spending one out of four of their state tax revenues on medicaid will see a 29% increase in the cost of medicaid funding and what will that do, mr. president? what that will do is force california and tennessee and connecticut and iowa to look in their state budgets, to take the money that most likely would have gone for the colleges and community colleges and public universities, and instead spend it on medicaid. those federal medicaid mandates are soaking up money that would otherwise go to public colleges and universities and as a result of that the universities are raising tuition, as a result of that loans are up, students are fasting, and the president's on the campaign trail promising to fix it. let's talk about his fix. first, it is the political season, and so students as we
president obama did not start this policy. it's been going on for 30 years, but he's making it much worse. with his health care law that was passed and when it takes effect next year, the kaiser family foundation says that states which already are spending one out of four of their state tax revenues on medicaid will see a 29% increase in the cost of medicaid funding and what will that do, mr. president? what that will do is force california and tennessee and connecticut and iowa to look in...
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so does president obama. that's why this administration has aggressively challenged countries that break trade rules at the wto. that's why we developed tough, new oecd rules to finance aircraft exports. here's the problem. these things take time. wto complaints are important, they can take up to five years to complete. that oecd aircraft deal, we opened negotiations in 2009, we inked the deal in 2011, it won't take effect until 2013. then there are the trade deals. agreements with south korea, colombia and panama were all signed into law by president obama this fall, and they're going -- but they took years to negotiate. negotiations on panama and colombia began in 2004. i'm going to put that in perspective. my chief of staff, kevin varney and his wife betsy, have a beautiful 13-year-old daughter, julia. [laughter] this is what she looks like today. everyone meet julia. she's in school. here's what she looked like when the panama negotiations began. [laughter] in the time it took to get this deal done, julia
so does president obama. that's why this administration has aggressively challenged countries that break trade rules at the wto. that's why we developed tough, new oecd rules to finance aircraft exports. here's the problem. these things take time. wto complaints are important, they can take up to five years to complete. that oecd aircraft deal, we opened negotiations in 2009, we inked the deal in 2011, it won't take effect until 2013. then there are the trade deals. agreements with south korea,...
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>> by all appearances, it was a status quo election, returning us to the division of power; obama in the white house, democrats in control of the senate, republicans of the house. but appearances can be deceiving, and in this case are. the most important reality of the election is that the republican effort to oppose anything and everything proposed by obama -- almost like a parliamentary party -- was not rewarded. the taking the debt ceiling hostage was not rewarded, calling the obama health care plan which was their own only a few years earlier socialism was not rewarded. that was not they have to begin to rethink themselves and, importantly, democrats will not automatically embrace the same tactics in opposition. so i think that was an important change that creates a new dynamic not that's going to solve our problems. there's going to be no sitting around the campfire in washington making nice to one another. but the possibility now exists for a real effort and a successful effort to deal with our most pressing problems. >> two familiar washington faces, thomas mann and norm ornst
>> by all appearances, it was a status quo election, returning us to the division of power; obama in the white house, democrats in control of the senate, republicans of the house. but appearances can be deceiving, and in this case are. the most important reality of the election is that the republican effort to oppose anything and everything proposed by obama -- almost like a parliamentary party -- was not rewarded. the taking the debt ceiling hostage was not rewarded, calling the obama...
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when president obama was elected he was interested in you being the chief officer. with your family, that's not the way you went. what would your priorities be?? [inaudible] i think there is a lot we can do. first and foremost, investing in big problems that we need to solve whether it's alternative energy or bio synthetic materials, new materials. there's a lot we can do as a country in understanding the research that happens in universities now in materials. i'm a material scientist. maybe i'm biased. going back to physically creating new kinds of things is as important as the web and [inaudible] me saying this i work at cicso now. it's important look at physical innovations as well as technical innovation. [inaudible] sponsor large-scale research projects working with research project. companies benefit from that. it creates something new come ling out of that. that would be something the president would have to have as a mandate from a technology point of view. >> we won't get into the question whether you can have it all. [laughter] which is we talked about her
when president obama was elected he was interested in you being the chief officer. with your family, that's not the way you went. what would your priorities be?? [inaudible] i think there is a lot we can do. first and foremost, investing in big problems that we need to solve whether it's alternative energy or bio synthetic materials, new materials. there's a lot we can do as a country in understanding the research that happens in universities now in materials. i'm a material scientist. maybe...
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that's one of the problems that i think the obama administration's had. to use a term not in a derogatory sense because it came to me from a democrat, he said the president's just a drive-by senator. he was not a real senator, he was a drive-by senator. stopped in the long enough to pick up his paycheck and then became president of the unite. president of the united states. and panetta was in the house long enough to understand the house, biden was in the senate for 36 years, and they did not have a congressional relations team that had the kind of institutional memory that i think they needed. now they've been forced to get some institutional memory by all the scar tissue they've aqierd over the last little while -- acquired over the last little while. >> great. well, i'd like to go to audience questions now. >> hard to -- >> hi. thanks so much for a great presentation. donna cruz from aids united. wonder how hurricane sandy and a possible need for fema to get some emergency supplemental funding will impact on the lame duck and if you could talk a little
that's one of the problems that i think the obama administration's had. to use a term not in a derogatory sense because it came to me from a democrat, he said the president's just a drive-by senator. he was not a real senator, he was a drive-by senator. stopped in the long enough to pick up his paycheck and then became president of the unite. president of the united states. and panetta was in the house long enough to understand the house, biden was in the senate for 36 years, and they did not...
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we have taken those actions with the obama administration. it was in parallel -- not exactly a sequence. we did last august, the president signed a new executive order to give the executive branch more authority to make those decisions about gross human-rights violations. universally by the way. we believe it should not be just a russia specific thing that universal principle. that is the executive order the president signed and we have taken that action. we have taken action -- we agree and have taken action. we like what we are doi
we have taken those actions with the obama administration. it was in parallel -- not exactly a sequence. we did last august, the president signed a new executive order to give the executive branch more authority to make those decisions about gross human-rights violations. universally by the way. we believe it should not be just a russia specific thing that universal principle. that is the executive order the president signed and we have taken that action. we have taken action -- we agree and...
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c-span3 also has live coverage as president obama visits cedar rapids, iowa, this afternoon. the president plans to discuss his plan to extend tax cuts for households making less than $250,000 a year. that's scheduled to begin at 1:50 eastern. >> we have great threats to our existence today as a nation. and i would think, in my opinion, greater than any threat we've ever faced whether it's been our civil war, our revolutionary war, whether it's been world war ii, whether it's been the depression. be and that threat comes to us because we've spent the last 30 years in this country spending money that we did not have on things we did not absolutely need, and the bill is due. >> colorado christian university held a western conservative issues summit featuring speakers from this country and the netherlands. watch the forum online at the c-span video library. >> the national security agency director says cyber attacks are increasing globally. general keith alexander says the u.s. needs comprehensive legislation in place to protect the nation's cyber infrastructure. the nsa directo
c-span3 also has live coverage as president obama visits cedar rapids, iowa, this afternoon. the president plans to discuss his plan to extend tax cuts for households making less than $250,000 a year. that's scheduled to begin at 1:50 eastern. >> we have great threats to our existence today as a nation. and i would think, in my opinion, greater than any threat we've ever faced whether it's been our civil war, our revolutionary war, whether it's been world war ii, whether it's been the...
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., president obama, secretary clinton, for their commitment to an aids-free generation. and most of all, i really want to give credit and thank to the community activism which for the last three decades has really brought us to where we are today in hiv. much of the progress that's been made not only with is's to medications, not only with an inclusive planning progress and not only in hiv, but really has changed the way we do clinical trials, the way we plan programs for the better. so a lot of credit to a lot of hard work over many years by many people. the first requirement we found was to get good information so that we could identify the extent of the epidemic, so we could identify the groups most effective and so we could track whether the programs we were put anything place were working. is so our first requirement has been good information openly derived and be shared so we can have a shared understanding of where we are in the epidemic and where it's moving and which programs are working and which are not working so that we can hold ourselves accountable. stemmi
., president obama, secretary clinton, for their commitment to an aids-free generation. and most of all, i really want to give credit and thank to the community activism which for the last three decades has really brought us to where we are today in hiv. much of the progress that's been made not only with is's to medications, not only with an inclusive planning progress and not only in hiv, but really has changed the way we do clinical trials, the way we plan programs for the better. so a lot...
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so here we have obama-care. it raises taxes by half a trillion dollars. it raises taxes $500 billion. it cuts medicare half a trillion dollars. it cuts medicare by $500 billion and yet at the same time it places huge costs, a huge burden on the states. the c.b.o. now estimates, congressional budget office now estimates that over the next ten years, it will cost the states $118 billion -- that's a $118 billion cost to the states when they're trying to balance their budgets. they're already facing challenges balancing their budgets and we put that kind of huge cost on them. at the same time, think of what it does to our small businesses. now, again, as governors, i mean, i know how it was in my state. i think it was true when you were governor of nebraska of the i think it was true when senator alexander was governor alexander in tennessee. we understood that job creation was job one, that you've got to make sure that your businesses are able to -- to work effectively, to compete and to employ people. that's the engine that drives our economy, that small bu
so here we have obama-care. it raises taxes by half a trillion dollars. it raises taxes $500 billion. it cuts medicare half a trillion dollars. it cuts medicare by $500 billion and yet at the same time it places huge costs, a huge burden on the states. the c.b.o. now estimates, congressional budget office now estimates that over the next ten years, it will cost the states $118 billion -- that's a $118 billion cost to the states when they're trying to balance their budgets. they're already...
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it wasn't just obama. in the republic celebrated the vindication of the emerging democratic majority thesis. we can go on and on. harold meyerson exhorted the president-elect to bring on the new deal while paul krugman said it all the title of his postelection column, franklin delano obama. by all-time favorite has to be this "newsweek" cover. [laughter] as rick perry might say, whoops. things didn't turn out this way. the easy answer to why that's the case is obama overspent. americans turned against the health care bill in the tea partiers brought about a resurgent american right that helped to build his congressional majority. although this played a role to be sure. but the more fundamental question, if obama had really assembled an fdr like coalition time he should've been able to overcome these forces. after all, you will recall or maybe you want an fdr's presidency, democratic nominees from 192819241928 had all joined together to oppose his presidency but in 1834 midterms. a huge backlash among the d
it wasn't just obama. in the republic celebrated the vindication of the emerging democratic majority thesis. we can go on and on. harold meyerson exhorted the president-elect to bring on the new deal while paul krugman said it all the title of his postelection column, franklin delano obama. by all-time favorite has to be this "newsweek" cover. [laughter] as rick perry might say, whoops. things didn't turn out this way. the easy answer to why that's the case is obama overspent....
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the obama campaign will spend more. let's talk about who's -- these are ordinary citizens and, of course, they're not ordinary citizens but let's think about this a bit. when foster friess funded a super pac back for rick santorum, today keep ordinary citizens being heard or did that make millions of voters citizens who liked rick santorum, did it help them? rick santorum was getting creamed before foster friess came along. when newt gingrich came out, and support by sheldon abelson, did not drown voices out there that help people hear about newt gingrich? today keep them in the race longer? did more people get to hear his views? we can go back -- >> there were no newt gingrich supporters and there were no rick santorum supporters. that's the point. [talking over each other] >> if those people have actual americans borders and it would've been able to stay in race longer because they would have lots of donors which they did not have. speak at this point we're not talking sosa because we know that many, many speech i don
the obama campaign will spend more. let's talk about who's -- these are ordinary citizens and, of course, they're not ordinary citizens but let's think about this a bit. when foster friess funded a super pac back for rick santorum, today keep ordinary citizens being heard or did that make millions of voters citizens who liked rick santorum, did it help them? rick santorum was getting creamed before foster friess came along. when newt gingrich came out, and support by sheldon abelson, did not...
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president obama believes in 90% of americans. democrats agree and so does the majority of americans. mr president, the majority of americans including a majority of republicans around this country believe taxes should remain low for the middle-class but the top 2% should pay their fair -- to reduce the debt. the bill the senate is about to pass respect the will of the american people including a majority of republicans in america outside the halls of this congress. members of congress, the republicans disagree with the majority of republicans. the president said he would sign the bill immediately. now republicans are threatening to hide behind another arcane procedural maneuver to stall this legislation. they are threatening to do something and get the attention of the american people. they say oh no. they are threatening to do something because revenue-raising legislation must reach the house of representatives but my republican colleagues have short memories. senate republicans are happy to suit their purposes. willing to go ar
president obama believes in 90% of americans. democrats agree and so does the majority of americans. mr president, the majority of americans including a majority of republicans around this country believe taxes should remain low for the middle-class but the top 2% should pay their fair -- to reduce the debt. the bill the senate is about to pass respect the will of the american people including a majority of republicans in america outside the halls of this congress. members of congress, the...
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[applause] >> president obama will be campaigning in nevada and colorado this week. tonight the president holds a rally in las vegas. you can watch our live road to the white house coverage beginning at 8:25 p.m. eastern here on c-span2, and that c-span.org. >> former republican senator tom coburn yesterday predicted a downgrade of the u.s. credit rating. a former member of the simpson-bowles fiscal commission, senator coburn also said he's not worried about the so-called fiscal cliff, the series of tax increases and budget cuts scheduled to take effect in january. he focused instead on the financial health of medicare, saying the only way to save the program is to change it. he made his remarks at an event hosted by the ripon society, a group named after the town of ripon, wisconsin, the birthplace of the republican party. >> good morning, all. good morning and thank you all so much for coming out this morning. for those of you who i've not met, i'm jim conzelman and i'm president of this great organization called the ripon society. as you know we are a public polic
[applause] >> president obama will be campaigning in nevada and colorado this week. tonight the president holds a rally in las vegas. you can watch our live road to the white house coverage beginning at 8:25 p.m. eastern here on c-span2, and that c-span.org. >> former republican senator tom coburn yesterday predicted a downgrade of the u.s. credit rating. a former member of the simpson-bowles fiscal commission, senator coburn also said he's not worried about the so-called fiscal...
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but it turned out in retrospect that there two obamas, not two americas. and that after he became president, he was very difficult from candidate obama. everybody who is elected is going to be different from how they are when they run for office, and you can't keep all of your promises. in his case, it seemed like he was even more different than it, especially when it cames to issues about negotiations, issues ability appointments, backing down on guantanamo closes, and also on the people he hired to work for him in the beginning beginning with which were a lot of wall street experts who had worked in the clinton administration, who were really part of the economic disaster that had been happening. i decided i would try to figure out what that's about and where it came from. and so i started reading, and one of the things that happened, actually during a primary when i was not thinking about a book at all, a colleague of mine suggested read "king for my father" i have to say it's one of the great books. i just adored it. and it was as good book as the come
but it turned out in retrospect that there two obamas, not two americas. and that after he became president, he was very difficult from candidate obama. everybody who is elected is going to be different from how they are when they run for office, and you can't keep all of your promises. in his case, it seemed like he was even more different than it, especially when it cames to issues about negotiations, issues ability appointments, backing down on guantanamo closes, and also on the people he...
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the obama administration we believe deeply in what lightsquared is attempting to do which is to make the internet more accessible to more people all across the country. this is an urgent national priority. but after comprehensive testing we have concluded the current plan to provide services adversely affect gps signals. i will be happy to delve into the details during our conversation as i have in my written testimony. in short, both lightsquared original and revised list generate considerable harmful interference with gps. our researchers could not, could find no obvious practical mitigations to solve interference issues. i would also point out the substantial federal resources including over two many dollars from the faa has been different from other programs in testing and analyzing lightsquared's proposals. even if these interference issues were somehow resolved, lightsquared would still have to design fixes for known interference with high precision gps receivers that are vital for agriculture, science and surveying. lightsquared's operating plan still leaves open the possibili
the obama administration we believe deeply in what lightsquared is attempting to do which is to make the internet more accessible to more people all across the country. this is an urgent national priority. but after comprehensive testing we have concluded the current plan to provide services adversely affect gps signals. i will be happy to delve into the details during our conversation as i have in my written testimony. in short, both lightsquared original and revised list generate considerable...
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i thank president obama for making high-speed rail a priority. instead of developing energy efficient mass transit, we have allowed our rail system to deteriorate. we're not just lagging, we're not even trying to innovate. that's just not the american way. as a resident of knight, i fully understand the value of access to high-speed rail service along the southeast corridor. it is the busiest rail line in the united states, and it is the only amtrak segment that runs an operating surplus. it is making a profit. of all the places in our nation high-speed rail makes most sense along the northeast corridor which features the most congested road, the densest population and the most interconnected cities, and it had the ridership to make a profit for the investment in this rail system. from washington to boston, the amtrak stations are located right in the city centers making them more accessible to business travelers and the airports. the northeast region also has the densest population in the country, fully 20% of the nation's entire population live
i thank president obama for making high-speed rail a priority. instead of developing energy efficient mass transit, we have allowed our rail system to deteriorate. we're not just lagging, we're not even trying to innovate. that's just not the american way. as a resident of knight, i fully understand the value of access to high-speed rail service along the southeast corridor. it is the busiest rail line in the united states, and it is the only amtrak segment that runs an operating surplus. it is...
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and we can see what's going on that in the obama administration. how many, practically living in ohio and new hampshire. i mean, ohio and pennsylvania. look at some of the policies that are coming out there, because they are the handful of battleground states. if you're a smaller state, it doesn't make any difference how many electoral votes you have. e.g. said it diminishes your power, your power to do what? you're not having any influence, because, because your vote is taking for granted. in this country, a lot of statements are made, but fortunately the answer to them are based on history and reality and things happen in elections and statistics. .. because if you're a target state you might not be tomorrow and under our system if things are not working out fairly you can change it as you go along without having to change the constitution. it is -- with a you are a big state or a small state it doesn't make any difference under the current system unless you are a target state. we have gotten into the position and the president has started runnin
and we can see what's going on that in the obama administration. how many, practically living in ohio and new hampshire. i mean, ohio and pennsylvania. look at some of the policies that are coming out there, because they are the handful of battleground states. if you're a smaller state, it doesn't make any difference how many electoral votes you have. e.g. said it diminishes your power, your power to do what? you're not having any influence, because, because your vote is taking for granted. in...
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here is the public's emotional reactions to the obama ads, to two obama ads. one is the america the beautiful which is in the green, and the number one which was a series of attacks about the lack of accomplishments romney had in the state of massachusetts. and as you can see, there's some things that are similar, but there's also some differences. the america the beautiful ad made people a little bit more disgusted and angry. again, that's useful to know. and, remember, we have a baseline to compare this. that is we have those ten ads in the bank that we can use as a standard to judge whether this ad is really kind of crossing the line and moving the discussion in ways that the public does not like. here's specific evaluations of the ad. unfair, untruthful, negative. we actually asked people if they think an ad is negative and a lot of times, again, reflecting the problem with the term, um, you know, many people think positive ads are negative, especially if they're partisans from the other side. but notice the memorable line. that is that the america the bea
here is the public's emotional reactions to the obama ads, to two obama ads. one is the america the beautiful which is in the green, and the number one which was a series of attacks about the lack of accomplishments romney had in the state of massachusetts. and as you can see, there's some things that are similar, but there's also some differences. the america the beautiful ad made people a little bit more disgusted and angry. again, that's useful to know. and, remember, we have a baseline to...
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frankly, three years ago a lot of them were swept up into obama mania. okay? but at this point they're opening their eyes to something, they're standing up against some injustice, and my approach to that is i'm not going to be mad at you because you wasn't there six years ago or three years ago -- [applause] i'm going to go to you right now and say you're on to something. but you're not seeing the whole pick hur. picture. here is what it looks like. i'm going to go to you with what's happening around the world, that this 99% has to be seen on a global level. i'm going to go to you with what's happening up in harlem, what's happening over in the south bronx. this is going down every day. and if you want to talk about the 99%, you've got to say that this section of it over here in the ghettos and barrios are dealing with some things. and if you see that as outside of your issues, you're not relating to the 9 t %. i'm going to challenge people to not only be true to their principles, but to take those principles and on that basis dick dig deeper into reality. i'm
frankly, three years ago a lot of them were swept up into obama mania. okay? but at this point they're opening their eyes to something, they're standing up against some injustice, and my approach to that is i'm not going to be mad at you because you wasn't there six years ago or three years ago -- [applause] i'm going to go to you right now and say you're on to something. but you're not seeing the whole pick hur. picture. here is what it looks like. i'm going to go to you with what's happening...
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been picking on obama for four years. and usually their mantra goes jobs, destroying regulation, let industry police itself, we don't want government involved. now they are saying we want more government involvement. and i think they are right. with one appropriate government involvement to stop these things from happening. so, you would think that our obligation would be to figure out, he had the authority? i respect that chairman greatly but i've never understood him to be a great legal scholar. seems to be there's some ambiguity. if there's an ambiguity it's our job to clear it up. you think there's an ambiguity because the law we drafted in 1997 said one thing and the court came in and said something else. you don't know what you can add, what do you can't act. if want to make you act in the future, other than just to beat you up do not i can, we got to make sure you have all of the authority appropriate to act. courts have thrown out part of that 1997 law. the courts themselves divided on whether section 503(a) conti
been picking on obama for four years. and usually their mantra goes jobs, destroying regulation, let industry police itself, we don't want government involved. now they are saying we want more government involvement. and i think they are right. with one appropriate government involvement to stop these things from happening. so, you would think that our obligation would be to figure out, he had the authority? i respect that chairman greatly but i've never understood him to be a great legal...